Mohammed-Bin-Salman on SAUDI VISION 2030 Intelligence Platform

Saudi leadership and House of Saud governance under Vision 2030

Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Saudi leadership is a monarchy led by the House of Saud. As of May 26, 2026, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is the king and head of state; Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is crown prince, prime minister, chairman of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs, and chairman of PIF [S1], [S2], [S8]. The line begins with Abdulaziz Al Saud, the founder and first king of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which was proclaimed in 1932 after his unification campaigns [S5]. For Vision 2030, the practical governance point is that strategy, capital allocation, delivery oversight, and succession credibility are concentrated around the king, the crown prince, CEDA, PIF, ministries, royal commissions, and project companies [S1], [S2], [S8], [S9].

Saudi Vision 2030: Goals, Progress, KPIs, and the 2026 Mid-Term Reality Check

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Saudi Vision 2030 is the most ambitious sovereign reform program of the post-Cold War era. Approved by the Council of Ministers on 25 April 2016 and architected by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, it set out to convert a hydrocarbon rentier state into a diversified, partially privatised, services-and-manufacturing economy in fourteen years. The blueprint covers ninety-six strategic objectives, thirteen delivery programmes, and a notional capital envelope of around three trillion US dollars across public, sovereign-fund, and induced private investment. By design, it is a fifteen-year wager that the Kingdom can build a non-oil revenue base large enough to outpace the structural decline of crude as a fiscal anchor.

The Line: Saudi Arabia's 170km Linear City — Original Vision and 2026 Scope Cuts

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Line Saudi Arabia

The Line Saudi Arabia is the most architecturally radical and most heavily marketed component of NEOM, the $500-billion-plus giga-project anchoring Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 economic transformation. As originally unveiled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on 10 January 2021, The Line was to be a single linear city stretching 170 kilometres across the northwestern Tabuk desert from the Gulf of Aqaba inland — a continuous structure 500 metres tall, 200 metres wide, sheathed in mirrored glass, populated by nine million residents, free of cars, streets and carbon emissions, traversed end-to-end by a high-speed underground rail line in twenty minutes. It was, in MBS’s own framing, “a civilizational revolution that puts humans first.”